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Andrey Breslav

Lead on Project Kotlin

Andrey is the lead language designer working on Project Kotlin at JetBrains (http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/). He also works on making the Java language better, serving as a Java Community Process expert in a group for JSR-335 ("Project Lambda"). In what spare time is left he tries to make sure that his traveling is not all about work and teaches programming to high-school children. Used to teach OOP/Software Design at a university, but currently switched to speaking at software conferences. Audiences of Devoxx, OSCON, StrangeLoop, Jfokus and other events gave warm reception to his talks on Kotlin, programming languages and foundations of software engineering.

Blog

Type-Safe Web with Kotlin

Posted Monday, June 17, 2013

We told you about Kara Web Framework a while ago. It is written in Kotlin and relies on type-safe builders. It doesn’t have to be the only web framework for Kotlin, but the general principles seem good, so I wrote an article about these principlesmore »

Talk @ GeekOUT Tallinn: Language Design Trade-Offs (Kotlin and Beyond)

Posted Monday, June 10, 2013

This week I’m speaking at GeekOUT Tallin, and my colleagues Mikhail Vink and Sergey Karashevich are holding a 15-minute DEMO on Thursday, telling you about cool stuff in JetBrains’ IDEs. The topic of my talk is “Language Design Trade-Omore »

Kotlin M5.3: IntelliJ IDEA 13, Delegated Properties and more

Posted Thursday, June 6, 2013

Kotlin M5.3 brings support for IntelliJ IDEA 13 and some new features for you to check out. We are moving towards powerful runtime support, including reflection and other framework-enabling featuremore »

Presentations

Introduction to Kotlin

By Andrey Breslav

Some years ago "alternative" programming languages for the JVM lived mostly in research labs and garages, industry knew about some of them, sometimes even used them, but never produced them. Recently, the trend has changed: new languages are backed by industrial vendors. To put it another way: the time has come for a new JVM language, and there are a few projects competing in this field. One of them is Kotlin, backed by JetBrains, a leading IDE vendor.

Kotlin is a modern statically typed language targeting JVM and JavaScript and intended for industrial use. The main goal behind this project is to create a language that would be a good tool for developers, i.e. will be safe, concise, flexible, 100% Java-compatible and well-supported by IDE and other tooling. Kotlin is an open-source project started developed JetBrains with the help of the community.

This session demonstrates the key features of Kotlin and provides a comparison to other "alternative" JVM languages.

Among others things, it covers * Static null-safety * Extension functions * Higher-order functions and type-safe builders * Smart casts: Kotlin's lightweight pattern matching * Making Java APIs better with Kotlin * Developing mixed Kotlin/Java projects

To find out more about Kotlin, please refer to http://kotlin.jetbrains.org

Blogs

Chess Pieces or Domain Expertise? Your Choice

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Jun. 18, 2013

Many years ago, I started a job as a contract manager, and it became clear I had a big problem. I had developers who knew one area of the code well. I had testers who knew not much of any area of the code well, even though they had worked for the organi

Type-Safe Web with Kotlin

Posted By: Andrey Breslav on Jun. 17, 2013

It’s Déjà vu All Over Again

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on Jun. 13, 2013

Several years ago I tried to discuss the need for Lean when Scrum was being used on projects with more than one team. Ken Schwaber didn’t want to hear this and eventually threw me off the Scrum Development Yahoo discussions group. I admit, I was talk

Slides from Exploding Management Myths Posted

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Jun. 10, 2013

I gave a talk last week at Better Software/Agile Development, called Exploding Management Myths. This is my first talk based on some of my management myths. Yes, the ones I’ve been writing for the last 18 month

Talk @ GeekOUT Tallinn: Language Design Trade-Offs (Kotlin and Beyond)

Posted By: Andrey Breslav on Jun. 10, 2013

In Defense of Kanban

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on Jun. 8, 2013

As many folks know, Net Objectives does both Scrum and Kanban. Admittedly, our Scrum is very much like Scrumban (or Scrum done under the context of Lean) but it is still an implementation of Scrum. Scrum, as it normally manifests itself, has several c

The Differences Between Lean Manufacturing and Lean Software Development

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on Jun. 8, 2013

Since lean comes from manufacturing, many question its validity for software developers. Our own experience is that Lean in software is very important. This blog covers three areas: The essential paradigm shift of lean and why it applies even more to

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Themes at ÜberConf

Architecture
Enterprise Java
Java Internals
Security - Enterprise & JVM
Cloud Computing
Languages on the JVM - Groovy, JRuby, Scala & Clojure
Java Web Frameworks - Wicket, Tapestry & SpringMVC
Build Systems - Maven & Gradle
Testing
Agility

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Esther Derby

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I started my career as a programmer, and over the years I’ve worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant and manager. From all these perspectives, one thing became clear: our level of individual, team and company success was deeply impacted by our work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, I have spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success. I’ve written over 100 articles, and co-authored two books–Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. I write about management, leadership, collaboration, organizations and change (or another topic I’m ..More » All Speakers »

Alan Shalloway

Lead Author of Design Patterns Explained, Essential Skills for Agile Developer

Al Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With over 40 years of experience, Al is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. Al is a SAFe Program Consultant as well as a certified Kanban instructor by the Lean Kanban University. Al has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped Net Objectives' clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Des..More » All Speakers »

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